Values and Behavior

Part I What Are Values and How Should They Be Measured? 

1.       What personal values are and what they are not: Taking a cross-cultural perspective by Lilach Sagiv and Sonia Roccas

2.       Methodological issues in studying personal values by Sonia Roccas, Lilach Sagiv and Mayan Navon3.       The refined theory of basic values by Shalom H. Schwartz



Part II Part II: Values and Behavior in Contexts



4.       Many kinds of kindness: The relationship between values and prosocial behavior by Bec Sanderson and Jamie McQuilkin

5.       The relations between values and aggression: A developmental perspective by Maya Benish-Weisman, Ella Daniel, Ariel Knafo-Noam

6.       Values and behavior in the work environment: Taking a multi-level perspective by Sharon Arieli and Orly Tenne-Gazit

7.       Cultural values and relationship development in organizations by Elizabeth C. Ravlin and Patrick J. Flynn

Part III Part III: Relating Values and Behavior 



8.       Value instantiations: The missing link between values and behavior by Paul H. P. Hanel, Katia C. Vione, Ulrike Hahn, and Gregory R. Maio

9.       Values and affective well-being: How culture and environmental threat influence their association by Diana Boer10.   From values to behavior and from behavior to values by Ronald Fischer



11.  Conclusion by Jan Cieciuch

Sonia Roccas is a Professor at the Open University of Israel. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a post doctoral fellow at Ohio State University. She spent Sabbatical years at the University of Pennsylvania (2001) and at the University of Kent (2008). She served as Dean of Academic Studies, at The Open University of Israel (2009-2012), and as the founding director of the MA program in Social Psychology (2012-2016). She also served as Associate Editor at the European Journal of Social Psychology and is currently serving as Associate Editor at the Personality as Social Psychology Bulletin. Her research focuses on psychological processes as they relate to social identities and to value priorities. In both fields she investigates the interplay between personal, situational, and cultural factors. Her work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Personality, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Personality and Social Psychology Review.

Lilach Sagiv is a Professor at the School of Business Administration, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She then spent a post-doctoral year at the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan, where she also spent sabbaticals as a visiting professor in 2005 and 2011. She served as an Associate Dean for Teaching at the School of Business Administration of the Hebrew University (2008-2010; 2013-2016) and is currently the Chair of the University Appointment and Tenure Committee in the Non-Experimental Sciences. She also serves as an associate editor at the European Journal of Social Psychology (2015-2017) and is serving (since 2011) on the editorial board of the Journal of International Business Studies. Her research interests focus on the impact of personal, professional and cultural